Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

Sorry time: years ago I worked on a telemedicine web app before telemedicine was nearly as popular as it is today. Part of the application had patients filling out questionnaires online to show answers to the doctors. We were onboarding different parts of a large healthcare system throughout all this (cardio, GI, etc.) and each had questionnaires that required different logic for when and how to display the questions, so the application had a fairly powerful system for driving the…

I think people here need to lighten up. I know we are all programmers, and we are sometimes portrayed as snobby and entitled, but we don't have to live up to those stereotypes. I understand it's frustrating when a tool you use is expected to work a certain way and it doesn't. I understand it's even more frustrating when the output could change depending on the time of day. That doesn't mean it is our place to gang up on…

There's some nice examples of something I've noticed - where you have a very clear issue and people pick away at stuff that's orthogonal to the issue and won't resolve anything. The question is clear, "gimme gimme gimme" is printed to stderr, it's not expected and we'd like to know why ... but there's comments like: - "Why does your test script call man where it should fail?" - "why do you need to do a 'man -w' every minutes?"…

Here's the commit from 2011: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/src/ma... 1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions diff --git a/src/man.c b/src/man.c index 1978329..48af3c0 100644 --- a/src/man.c +++ b/src/man.c @@ -1154,8 +1154,16 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) debug ("\nusing %s as pager\n", pager); - if (first_arg == argc) + if (first_arg == argc) { + /* http://twitter.com/#!/marnanel/status/132280557190119424 */ + time_t now = time (NULL); + struct tm *localnow = localtime (&now); +…